Aiba Hiroki has been chosen to play Ikenami Ryunosuke in 2009 super sentai series: Samurai Sentai Shinkenger he's one of the five rangers playing the part of the blue ranger aka Shinkenblue. this series is the first sentai series to not use team uniforms since 2001 and also the first Sentai in 38 years that revolve around samurai's instead of ninja's, without a doubt this series will also be adapted for american audience for the Power Rangers series in 2010 other confirmed cast are